SYNOPSIS:The history of my relationships reads like the Titanic meets a tornado during an earthquake. Disaster after disaster. For some reason, I'm always attracted to lying jerks. I finally decided that it's better to just have a good time and no one gets hurt. That philosophy worked for my last two years of college. Then I let myself get pulled in again by a pair of broad shoulders, pretty hazel eyes, and kisses that turned my brain to mush. Of course he was lying to me. All my friends told me something wasn't right, but I'm such a fool. When it all went wrong, I didn't expect his tall, dark, and handsome roommate being there to catch me. I think I love him. But can I trust him? He makes me happy. Can I trust myself? Ashley graduated from college and isn’t looking for romance. What she needs is a job and the career she’s worked so hard to achieve. Can her dream of working overseas survive a man who seeks to capture her heart?EXCERPT:

When
Jeff came over after his softball game, I still had a lot of anger and
resentment that I hadn’t taken out on Marcie. I didn’t even know it was there
until I had another convenient target.

He
pulled me into his arms and kissed me, but I pulled away. Walking away from him,
I said, “Why didn’t you tell me you were rich? Or that your father’s company is
Owens, Hart and Collins?”

“You
never asked me. Why, is it important?”

“I
guess it isn’t if this is just a temporary fling. I just think it’s polite to
let a girl know that you’re never going to take her home to meet your parents.
It sort of puts everything in perspective so that she can decide whether or not
she’s comfortable just being a casual fuck.”

“Ashley,
what is going on? I’m not trying to hold anything back from you. We hardly know
each other.”

“Yeah.
I was asked earlier today, what your last name is and I didn’t know it. My
fault, I guess. Normally you find that sort of thing out on a first date, but I
guess we haven’t had our first date yet, have we? We just jumped into the
fucking part and left the introductions for later.”

“I’m
not the one who did the seducing,” he said. “I told you that we should wait.
You’re the one who was hot to trot, and now that’s my fault? You’re being
incredibly ungrateful. I think you’ve got issues, and I’m more than willing to
let you work them out. Good night.”

He
didn’t exactly slam the door, but he didn’t close it gently, either. I stood
staring at it with my mouth open. What the hell just happened? The last thing I
wanted to do was fight with Jeff. When he knocked on the door, my heart jumped
in my chest, and I skipped to the door to answer it. And then I opened my
mouth, and the same bitchy crap I’d laid on Marcie earlier came spilling out.

BR Kingsolver is the
author of the Telepathic Clans series (The
Succubus Gift, Succubus Unleashed,
Succubus Rising, and Succubus Ascendant) and Broken Dolls, a paranormal thriller as
well as the contemporary romance Trust:
a truly modern romance, and the upcoming I’ll Sing for My Dinner. I grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, among
writers, artists and weird Hispanic and Native American myths and folklore.

I’ve lived all over the U.S. and earned a living doing everything from
making silver and turquoise jewelry, to construction to computers. I currently
live in Baltimore and Albuquerque.

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